Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

English poet

Lived from: 1809 - 1892

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 6 august 1809 Died: 6 october 1892

  • The greater man, the greater courtesy.
  • Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
  • 't Is not too late to seek a newer world.
  • Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
+1

Quotes 1 till 20 of 74.

1 2 3 4 Next 
  • 't Is not too late to seek a newer world.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • 'Tis better to have loved and lost
    than never to have loved at all.
    Source: In Memoriam A. H. H.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • A day may sink or save a realm.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • A louse in the locks of literature.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Authority forgets a dying king.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Better not be at all than not be noble.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • By blood a king, in heart a clown.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Doubt is Devil-born.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Either sex alone is half itself.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Faith lives in honest doubt.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
  • Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    - +
     0
1 2 3 4 Next 
All Alfred Lord Tennyson famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors